‘If we want to remove extreme poverty... we must match it with financing’
Co-founding directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Nobel Laureates in economics, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo discuss 20 years of insights and impact on evidence-based policy building for poverty alleviation in an interview with the Hindustan Times. Esther reaffirms the lab's commitment to its mission, saying, "For most academics, academic ambitions are never fulfilled."
Twenty years ago, Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo set up The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, or J-PAL, credited with significant interventions across countries in development, economic policy and academic research. In an exclusive interview, Banerjee (AB) and Duflo (ED) spoke to HT about the welfare debate, working with the government on policy and the state of the global economy.